{"id":1905,"date":"2015-06-17T03:11:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T03:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2015-06-24T01:03:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T01:03:24","slug":"there-is-no-time-for-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/there-is-no-time-for-art\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Time for Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"There Is No Time for Art\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y91qgLQ-Osg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Was at the Body and Soul festival doing a reading with my fellow Tullamore Rhymers, and this one got a good reception. Its one of the few non rhyming ones I do&#8230; and was written after seeing footage of the war in Syria where the Peshmerga were fighting IS&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no time for art<br \/>\nWhere bullets fly<br \/>\nAnd screams of fear replace song<br \/>\nEven the birds are quiet<br \/>\nBut to an artist, this is an ever evolving gallery<br \/>\nWhere the shells, explosions, fires and bullets<br \/>\nBy the craters, bullets holes and charred buildings<br \/>\nBecome one abstract sculpture<br \/>\nCarved by destruction<br \/>\nAs if to say<br \/>\nThe soldier is an artist<br \/>\nWho paints in blood<br \/>\nAnd war itself, is art.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/210688033&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was at the Body and Soul festival doing a reading with my fellow Tullamore Rhymers, and this one got a good reception. Its one of the few non rhyming ones I do&#8230; and was written after seeing footage of the war in Syria where the Peshmerga were fighting IS&#8230; There &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076,120,213,96],"tags":[224,2078,62,2354,2371,1176,2081,1694,2079,2077,2080,1797,336],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-non-rhyming-poems","category-war","category-war-poetry","tag-art","tag-bomb","tag-current-affairs","tag-death","tag-kurdistan","tag-peshmerga","tag-poetry-on-soundcloud","tag-poetry-reading","tag-ruin","tag-soldier","tag-soundcloud","tag-syria","tag-war-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-uJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1022,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-maud-gonne-of-the-kurds\/","url_meta":{"origin":1905,"position":0},"title":"A Maud Gonne of the Kurds","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st November 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bmfUBJn7F8g As Kurds fight to free Korbani I post this old poem of mine in tribute to the Peshmerga and their women fighters! 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